|  The body needs nourishment to thrive and a properly nourished body stands up better to the stress of life. When cash is short, one of the ways people try to save money is to skimp on food by eating cheap junk food. Don’t! Skimp on something else, but eat good food.
Actually, eating good food can be more economical than eating unhealthy food. Remember that processed, canned and refined foods are not only unhealthy, they are unsatisfying. White bread may be cheaper than whole wheat bread but you’ll eat four times as much and still not be nourished. Besides, whatever happened to homemade? My wife, who is from Russia, simply can’t understand how so many women in American don’t know how to cook. Home cooking is a great way to get better nutrition and save money! If you actually buy real food (fresh fruits and vegetables, especially locally grown and in season, whole grains, legumes and fresh meat) you can actually save money on your food budget. If you look in most people’s shopping carts you’ll see lots of soda, chips, sugar sweetened breakfast cereals, frozen dinners and other convenience foods. This stuff costs way more than real food.
Go look at the price of a bag of beans or split peas or lentils compared to these foods. Compare how much you get in a can of produce to how much you can get (volume wise) in fresh produce for the same price. Real food saves money. Lacking in time to prepare it? That can easily be overcome, too. It takes less time to eat an apple, some nuts and a carrot stick than it does to open and warm up a can of something. Simple food can taste great. Get a crock pot. Throw in vegetables and meat in the morning and come home to dinner in the evening. Soak some beans overnight and cook them in the crock pot the next day. It’s actually quite easy to save money and eat healthier at the same time.
Here’s another cheap, nutritious food that’s easy to prepare. Put some whole grain cereal in water in the evening and it will cook up in a few minutes in the morning. Add a little butter, cream or flax seed oil. In short, eating healthy doesn’t have to be expensive or time consuming. It just takes a little thought and preparation. And, while we’re at it, don’t forget our little green friends, the herbs. They can help us, too. You see, plants live with stress, just like we do. They have to endure conditions of excess water of deficient water, extreme heat or cold, poor soil and numerous other challenges in their lives. Because of this, they can “... | 
